Travel Blogs from Verona, Italy

... visit to Italy, but decided against it due to the rain and risk of flooding and smelly overflowing canals. So I headed to Verona, again forgotting to prebook my tickets and catching the slow regional train. In Verona I decided to save myself the 2km walk ...

ROMEO, ROMEO, WHERE FOR ART THOU ROMEO Tuesday 19 July 2016 An absolute scorcher of a day with heat strokes all round, this is how our day would end. Some may say that love may make you a little steamy but oh boy, we had it all today. There ...

... way is the intended direction.... Or maybe if they put them where I was looking.
Anyway, despite our fumblings we thought Verona was a nice city. Very picturesque, with a rich history - the foremost attraction being an early roman colleseum, where ...

After a sad farewell to Venice, we arrive in Verona and after checking in and some hand washing of laundry we walked near by to a local restaurant were we had a fabulous meal feasting on fresh Salads, Lasagne and Lobster Spaghetti washed down with a few ...

... 't as good as Mrs. Furfaro's or Nuna's).
The next day, we took a little walking tour and saw much more of Verona. They have a little medieval style market set up displaying some of the crafts from centuries ago all using the tools from ...

... . I almost cried !!!!! We drove past Modena, but I am not a Ferrari man so it did not bother me. In the morning, we arrived in Verona. We had been here before, so we headed for the Youth Hostel, drove the van in and put the roof up. This was the cheapest ...

... . Stuck with curfews, people snoring, pathetic breakfasts (bread and hot chocolate) and the like.
San Giorgio, Venice
Next was Verona. It's quite a cute town - got a river running through it, pretty churches and piazzas. Verona is famous for the ...

... morning with everything frozen, including Lucy's contact lenses in their solution!!!!! We made the joint decision to leave and head over to Verona. Home of Romeo and Juliet. We drove to the youth hostel and for 8000 Lira per person, you could pitch you ...

... with one of the nastiest characters of our travels backing up our photos, grabbed some of the best pizza we tasted in italy and hit the road north to Austria.
roadtrippin to Austria
The austostrada was carpeted in so much snow that even the ...

We are in Verona...it has been rainy here..yuk...we spent most of the day in a cafe stayign out of the rain. This is a really cute little town...we have met a girl from france and have been hanging out with here..she knows, english, french, italian and ...

... two sided clock and arches leading into a gorgeous square and park Called Piazza Bra. Next to this is the Arena di Verona, a Roman amphitheater dating to 30AD, and still in use. We did the typical tourist stop to the fictional Casa Giulietta ...

... and quite exceptional. So, we did enjoy our meal, very much! It gave us the opportunity to have a taste of Verona’s cuisine and the experience was a very pleasant one. Since we had an hour of leisure time right after lunch, Michel and ...

Good Food!
We had the privilege of watching the Verona Fire Department teach children how to use a fire extinguisher. The firemen would bundle each child, no mater how small (some as young as 3 or 4) in an adult sized protective gear and walk them up ...

... to the death! We ran into many school groups, some from Germany and France, not to mention Itlay. Like everywhere else, Verona was crowded. But the weather was perfect! We did the necessary tourist trips, and visited Juilette's house, her famous ...

... Table', which was the best there and very romantic. And inside the restaurant was amazing so check out the picture. Both of us had Verona Chicken with potatoes and was the best meal all trip. At the end of the night, the waiter offered up Grappa, then ...

... ; I guess I must have really needed my 'baby sleep’! Three hours later, we were in Verona, a city with approximately 265,000 inhabitants and also a city awarded the World Heritage Site status by UNESCO because of its urban ...

Day 18-20. I took the train to Verona to meet my friend Tyler. We spent the next 2 1/2 days in this cute little town. It had been the setting for Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. We saw the balcony that was supposedly his inspiration and the wall ...

... was an opera season? I ate fettuccini here, it was simple and the best food I'd had in weeks. The train ride from Verona to Austria the next morning went through some of the most amazing landscapes I have ever seen. Definitely one of the highlights so ...

Woke up at 530 grabbed breakfast with cappuchino<3 and hopped on a long train. We hopped on the metro and got to the duomo, we bought lift tickets because both of our legs were in a lot of pain. We went through the church, couldn't find the lift of ...

... was good fun, and bought some of the best rapberries I have ever tasted. So then I made it to the Arena. All of summer Verona holds an opera festival where you go into this ancient arena (many centuries old) and see elaborate operas, and everyone in the ...

Hi S3T, I am now in Caprino which is about 30 minutes away from Verona. We flew by plane from Malta today and we have driven from the Airport to our house. The house that we have booked 'comes with' 2 goats, 3 dogs, 5 cats, 2 geese and some chickens & ...

... egg! Grabbed the bags and then back to the piazza for one more spritz accompanied by olives and chips aaannnddd one last sketch of Italy. My heart is sad to leave! It took ten years to get bank! Switzerland is on the horizon...no whining here! The only ...

I do not doubt that there are good restaurants in Verona, and I do not doubt that there are exquisite restaurants in Verona. Much like Menaggio, however, Verona failed to inspire our taste buds. Verona had promised so much more than Menaggio, with a ...

... they say Shakespeare never travelled, even though some of his plays are set overseas. This clearly does not bother the people of Verona, who make a thriving business out of the city now famous for it's connection with the ill fated Romeo and Juliet. ...

We left Venice this morning and headed to Austria. By the time we got to VeronaItaly, it was lunchtime and everyone was hungry, so we stopped in town to see if we could find the fair Juliette's home and get a bite to eat. Shakespeare ...

... in my life. To my right, to my left, they were everywhere, stretched across these long hilly fields. We went to Verona on a perfect weekend because they were celebrating their own Carnavale with costumes and a parade. When we were watching the parade, an ...

... and personality and decoration. We enjoyed wandering the streets of Verona with an ice cream from the gelato in hand. Our B&B was beautiful. If you ever decide to take a trip to Italy and make a stop in Verona- go to Residenza Le ...